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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English slaye (Old English slege, from slēan ‘to strike’), a metonymic occupational name for a slay maker, an implement used in weaving to push the weft thread tightly against the thread of the preceding pass of the shuttle.
  • English : topographic name from Middle English slay ‘grassy slope’.

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